Hello everyone,
This is not a malicious post, this post only contains a few words of advise. Readers, please don't go for the Emirates college flight dispatch program. It is a very shoddy program and some of the S&P's of the instructors are abominable.
Let me give you a summary of my experience there. I won't name any names, but the program is run by Jeppeson, and I will say, they are just in it for the money, and the college is a figurative "diploma mill".We had 3 instructors, The first week we had a malaysian instructor (He was a genuinely nice guy and gave us a lot of useful info), from the 3'rd week onwards we had a Serbian instructor (also a very nice guy), and the last 2 weeks, we had this german f@#ker who thought he was all great, but he was really a hasbeen. Anyways ..
The module exams were pretty much a joke. The instructors pretty much told us that all the questions will come from the GLIME ATP revision book, and guess what, all the questions (multiple choice btw) came out of the glime. In many cases, the exam questions were even spoonfed to us. I remember a couple of people actually getting help during the exams as well. And one or 2 people failed many exams as well, but the instructors would actually make them erase their incorrect answers after the exam and then give them the right answers, just to make them pass. And these glime questions were a complete joke. Anybody who has read the GLIME ATP revision book probably will know what I'm talking about.
The instructors didn't want anybody to fail, cause then they didn't want to waste time on resits. The german f@#ker actually said "I have some important dates, and I don't want to waste my time on resits". Before the final GCAA exam, he actually gave us half the questions in the final exam. And then he threatens us by saying "If you tell anybody about this, I will hunt you down and I will make sure you never work in the gulf again". Yeah right. What a tosser !!!
And don't even get me started on the admin. Everybody is not that bad, but the place is seriously disorganised. 2 weeks before the O&P exam, they increase the fee by 200 dollars without even telling anyone. And now there is a stupid rule in the UAE that says that all Dispatchers must have 90 days of OJT before they can be issued a license. But they told us about this, and before the course, the co-ordinators of the program told us that we would be issued a temp. license if we apply for a full one. But guess what, after the course, they just brush us off like flies. Nobody was even able to get a temp license, since the people blatantly told us not to apply for one without OJT. No company will hire a dispatcher without a license, so most of my classmates have gone back to India to look for jobs. Some may have used their contacts to get something, but as far as I know, none of my friends got anything in the UAE. It was lousy.
The admin was especially useless. Most emiratis are very lazy and only rely on govt schemes or handouts to get by. The manager of the programs was an emirati, and nobody ever saw her around. She was a lazy c#$t.
Just go to Sheffield or some other school in the US and get your FAA license. It is more widely recognised, and I reckon the people over there would be a lot more helpful. Dubai is not all rosy. It's who you know, not what you know that gets you going here. If you know the right people, you'll get some work,that is especially true for dispatchers. Otherwise, it's useless.
Seriously, go to the US and get your FAA directly. Done come to EAC.
Some Jeppeson chrony might try to take this post down, but you that won't change the fact that the Jepp dispatcher course at EAC is a money making diploma mill.
Consider yourself warned.
Take care.